Happy Mother’s Day – Sunday 14th March

Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mothers and mother churches everywhere. It is celebrated in the UK and elsewhere in the English-speaking world.

Mothers Day has fallen on the fourth Sunday in Lent since the Middle Ages. It is exactly 21 days before Easter Sunday. It is also known as Laetare Sunday, Refreshment Sunday and Rose Sunday.

The Romans also celebrated a Mother Goddess, Cybele, every March as far back as 250BC.

Mother’s Day has an association with the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand and the reprieve from fasting, therefore cakes and buns have long been made to celebrate.
Simnel cake is the most familiar and popular all the way through to Easter. Popular in Bristol and other places are Mothering Buns: plain yeast-leavened buns, iced, and sprinkled with hundreds and thousands. Also easy for children to decorate. Best eaten for breakfast on that day.

If you are able, treat your Mum, Step Mum, Granny, Nan, Pseudo Mum, Adoptive Mum, Single Mum – we are all amazing!

Mother’s Day for the next ten years will fall on the following dates:

2021 – 14 March
2022 – 27 March
2023 – 19 March
2024 – 10 March
2025 – 30 March
2026 – 15 March
2027 – 7 March
2028 – 26 March
2029 – 11 March
2030 – 31 March
2031 – 23 March

Why not plant a tree for your Mum? Find out more HERE.

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Grand Silent Auction Starts March 12th

Starting today and running until Sunday, 28th March, the Rotary Club of Lyme Regis are hosting a Grand Silent Auction of Goods & Promises.

The event will be hosted online and is raising funds for Lyme Regis Food Bank, Julia’s House, Weldmar Hospicecare and the Alzheimer’s Society.

Mark Hix — Lot 3: A “Hix at Home” fish box plus a live “cook along with Mark”.

There are over 100 Lots with a vast range of fantastic offers including:

A voucher for a £250 discount on a Lyme Regis holiday cottage from Lyme Bay Holidays.
Cook-a-long lessons with celebrity chef, Mark Hix.
Autographed memorabilia from Lyme Regis resident & Deep Purple’s vocalist, Ian Gillan. Ian has kindly offered to personally sign the auction items on request 🙂
Half a day fishing off the Jurassic Coast.
A weekend experience at a Caterham Club Motor Race.

Bidding will begin at 12 noon on March 12th and will close at 9pm on Sunday, 28th March.

To get started, simply

Click on the red ‘Sign in’ button.
Register your contact details.
You will then be able to place bids by clicking on the item and press “Bid Now“.
Follow the online instructions.

To view all the Lots – Click HERE.

At the end of the auction, the winning bidders will be contacted by email, once payment is received. They will then be provided with an address in Lyme Regis from which their Lot may be collected.
Alternatively, the Rotary Club is able to arrange free delivery up to 10 miles.

You will be supporting four local charities, Lyme Regis Food Bank, Julia’s House, Weldmar Hospicecare and the Alzheimer’s Society, all of which have struggled to raise funds in the past year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

To contact Lyme Regis Rotary Club directly, please telephone the Secretary on 01297 560081.

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Tales From The Telephone Box

Regular users of the website (rather then the Facebook page or Twitter Feed) will notice a new sub menu item – Tales From The Telephone Box.

At the end of January this year, Margery Hookings invited users of the telephone box Book Exchange to submit their book reviews. The response has been good and she has published several on her blog already. Read more HERE.

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Local Farmer Loses Lamb To Dog

* Please keep your dog secure in fields *

Local farmers, Neil & Rachel Hayball at Speckets Knapp Lamb have their sheep graze between Broadwindsor and Pilsdon pen.

Tragically yesterday, an out of control dog killed a 10 month old lamb that they have been nurturing along with the rest of the flock since birth.

An angry Rachel posted the picture of the dead lamb on social media stating “THIS is what happens when you fail to keep your dog on lead or secure within your property. . . . Before anyone asks whether I am sure it was a dog – yes I am. I’ve just found dog foot prints and the injuries to the lamb are consistent with a dog attack.”

Rachel continued “Please be aware that if we catch a dog in with our sheep and we can’t get hold of it it WILL be shot as per UK law.“

Dorset Police have been informed and anyone with any information is requested to use the Crime Ref. number: 10-646

The Law –

Under the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Act 1953, if a dog worries sheep on agricultural land, the person in charge of the dog is guilty of an offence. The Act considers sheep worrying to include: attacking sheep. chasing them in a way that may cause injury, suffering, abortion or loss of produce.

Farmers are legally entitled to shoot dogs if they are endangering their sheep.
Farmers cannot shoot dogs simply due to trespassing. If they do, they could be prosecuted in a civil action by the owner.
Farmers will need to prove they shot the dog as the only way possible or last resort to protect livestock.
Farmers cannot shoot dogs that have permission to be on the farmland.

* Please keep your dog secure in fields *

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Vikki’s Specials At The White Lion

From Thursday 11th March – Saturday 13th, Vikki’s offerings from the White Lion kitchen are:

Homemade Chicken and Broccoli Pie with Fresh Vegetables and Chips or Mash.
Homemade Cottage Pie topped with Cheese and Onion Mash with Fresh Vegetables.
Homemade Cod Florentine (Cod/Spinach/Cheese sauce) topped with Mashed Potatoes with Fresh Vegetables.

On offer all weekend:

Homemade Scone with Jam and Clotted Cream
(served separately so you can put it on which ever way round you like!) @ £4.00 each

For Mothering Sunday Lunch:

There is a choice of Roast Pork, Roast Turkey or Roast Beef
all served with their accompaniments @ £8.50.

Vikki’s message on this day:

“Happy Mother’s Day to all us Mums/Step Mums/Wives/Aunties and Grannies, we are all fab!!”

Please pre-order by 5pm Saturday.
Please collect between 12 noon – 2.00pm.

Telephone: 01308 867070
Email: info@whitelionbroadwindsor.co.uk;
Message them through Facebook: HERE.

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C G Fry’s Planner Paul Hoffman Responds To Fuller Residents’ Concerns

Over half of last evening’s Group Parish Council meeting was taken up with Planner for C G Fry & Son, Paul Hoffman listening to the many comments and objections from residents re: Planning Application: WD/D/21/000123, the Land South of Fullers, Bridport Road, Broadwindsor.

Chairman, Rowland Hibbard brought item 9a on the agenda ahead of it’s proposed time as councillors, Leader and Rowe delivered the many comments and objections as well as the findings from their canvassing of residents. Village residents, Sandra Burrows, Jess Burns & Julie Steele delivered their objections to Paul Hoffman directly.

Cllr. Leader began, requesting additional trees on the north east border and the western boundary and other soft landscaping issues – none of which were expected to cause any problems. Unfortunately, the straight layout of the road cannot be altered. Paul Hoffman said that Dorset Council Highways had looked at the proposal and were satisfied with it as were they. “It is what it is in terms of the road.”

Cllr. Leader continued to then enquire about affordable housing – would they to be to buy or to rent? Paul Hoffman replied that they were in discussion with various Housing Associations and that once they had consent, all of the affordale housing decisions will go to the Housing Association. As far as the tenures are – there is part ownership (up to 60%) and there are affordable rented homes. These houses will never appear on the open market. The Housing Association would always retain ownership of these affordable homes.

Cllr. Rowe began by addressing the 110m of hedgerow proposed to be planted at the western edge of the site and this was part of the mitigation for the loss of wildlife habitats. This hedgerow was the boundary of five properties and Cllr. Rowe sought reassurance from Paul Hoffman that that this hedge not be the reponsibility of householders and that a separate boundary was established on the western edge of the site with a mitigation hedge at least 2m away to ensure maximum protection for the displaced wildlife. Paul responded by saying that this should not be a problem and proposed the fairly easy solution of building a timber fence with some trees. When questioned further about maintenance, he added that either the landowner or the Management company would have the stewardship to maintain the area.

Five of the 22 houses proposed are four bedroomed houses and Councillor Rowe and Redlands resident Sandra Burrows stated that this did not go along with the village’s Neighbourhood Plan. Paul Hoffman defended their actions and stated that the vast majority of the scheme was in line with the village’s Neighbourhood planning policy and that four bedroomed houses were an obvious need and in keeping with similar properties in the village.

Fullers resident Jess Burns questioned the impact on amenity due to the closeness of one of the properties. The 110m of hedgerow would not suffice and she was concerned that the elevation of one of the new four bedroomed properties was too close to the back of her property. The new occupied property would generate a considerable amount of noise creating a huge negative impact on amenity. Jess also compared the ridgelines of the properties at Fullers and Redlands to the proposed development.
Of the eight properties on the road, three were slightly above the height of those nearby and Redlands resident, Julie Steele expressed her concern about people being able to see into her property.
Cllr. Sewell expressed concern and sought reassurance from Paul Hoffman that the properties would not be sold as second homes and that the properties would provide affordable housing. Chairman Cllr. Hibbard advised to wait to see which Housing Association had the contract and negate any difficulties with them rather than Fry’s.

As the Clerk has to submit the Council’s corporate decision by this Wednesday 10th March, Cllr. Fraser Hughes addressed the urgency to vote.

Cllr. Rowe commented that she was impressed by how many residents had taken the time to discuss their issues with herself and Cllr. Leader. They had carefully considered their objections and stated that “We (the Parish Council) must give them (the Parishoners) the very best that we can.” Cllr. Rowe added that there are many more issues such as street lighting and conservation. Cllr. David Leader staed they must be clear on what and how they wanted the layout. Cllr. Steve Chubb reiterated the need to listen to the parishoners and to make sure it was all forwarded to Dorset Council. Cllr. Simon Christopher had left the meeting by this time, having received no questions on his report.

All the Councillors agreed that C G Fry & Son had a positive and long standing history of development in the area being sensitive to both the area and the environment.

The Clerk suggested she collate the information, communicate with all on Tuesday and once there was clarity, submit the Corporate decision from the Parish Council on Wednesday. Cllr. Jacqui Sewell was clearly against the development. Cllr. Peter Hardwill clearly supported the development. However, a decision had to be made by all.

**It was agreed that subject to meeting the concerns and considerations of the Broadwindsor Parish residents, they would approve plan WD/D/21/000123.**

Who are your Councillors? Click HERE.

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Plant A Tree For Mothers Day – Sunday, 14th March

With just a week until Mother’s Day, some may have consumed enough chocolate throughout Lockdown so why not consider something a bit different? The National Trust are giving you the opportunity to dedicate a single sapling or up to half a hectare of woodland to your Mum this Mother’s Day and you’ll be helping to support their aim to plant 20 million trees by 2030:

£5 will buy a tree sapling.
£50 will buy 10 tree saplings.
£250 will plant 50 square metres.
£500 will plant 100 sq.m.
£2,500 will plant one fottball pitch (half a hectare!).

You can choose your amount and choose if it is in memory of someone or a celebration. At the moment, you are unable to ‘tag’ a specific tree, or choose a location for a tree to be planted. However, they have the ambition to plant 20 million trees by 2030, and your donation today can directly help create a living memorial that benefits nature for everyone, for ever. 🙂

Donate & Dedicate Your Tree HERE.

With care, attention and natural progression, small saplings grow into happy, healthy woodlands full of wonder. A lot goes into nurturing new life – and Mum’s know it!

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Local Employment: Cook/Kitchen Hand At Symondsbury

The Symondsbury Kitchen, part of the Symondsbury Estate are a growing local business and they are looking for cooks and kitchen hands to join their busy kitchen team.

If you have a passion for food and take pride in serving delicious home cooked food using home grown ingredients then they would love to hear from you!

Past experience is preferred but not essential as full training will be given.
Full time or part time positions are available.
Please apply by sending your CV and a cover letter to Sarah – sarah@symondsburyestate.co.uk.

If you would like more information, please contact Sarah.

The Symondsbury Estate is located at Bridport, Dorset, DT6 6HG.

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Midweek Motivator Quiz – Wednesday 10th March

This week, Margery presents 3 rounds of 5 questions and one picture round of 10 questions. Time is limited as Margery is using the free version of Zoom.

Zoom is Free for everyone! – Sign Up and get it HERE.

To Join the Zoom Meeting (the Quiz) – Click HERE.
Meeting ID: 727 9493 6686
Passcode: 4sfgV8

No prizes! it’s simply a bit of time out, seeing familiar faces and breaking the monotony of Lockdown. 🙂

Put it in your diary!
Set an alarm to remind yourself 15 mins beforehand!
Wednesday, 10th at 8pm.
Have fun!

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International Women’s Day, Monday 8th March

The theme of International Women’s Day 2021 is ‘Choose To Challenge’. Their statement is: “This states that the women are responsible for their own thoughts and actions everyday and they challenge the world everyday. The theme further signifies that women can choose to challenge gender bias and inequality in the world. People need to celebrate women’s achievements and also make world a better place to live in with equality.”

International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8th.

27 countries (mainly former Soviet republics) have adopted International Women’s Day as a national holiday, and it is widely observed in several others.

For most of the countries who observe this holiday, if the 8th falls on a weekend, it will be moved to the following Monday. If it falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, several countries will bridge the holiday to the weekend by declaring an additional public holiday on the Monday or Friday – though often this is compensated for by making a Saturday a working day.

In China since 2014, women are entitled to a half-day holiday for Women’s Day. In Madagascar and Nepal, the day is also an official women-only holiday.

International Women’s Day was first established at the 1910 International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen. German women’s rights activist and Marxist theorist Clara Zetkin was the one who tabled the idea.

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Denmark celebrated the holiday for the first time on March 19th 1911, with the Soviet Union the first to make it a public holiday in 1917. The date of 8th March was adopted internationally in 1921.

In 1977, the United Nations declared 8th March as International Women’s Day, a day each year when the world should celebrate, recognize and remember women and the accomplishments they have made to society. Each year has a different theme.

Purple, green and white are the colours of International Women’s Day.

Purple signifies justice and dignity.
Green symbolizes hope.
White represents purity, albeit a controversial concept.

The colours originated from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) in the UK in 1908.

**International Men’s Day…**

is on November and their objectives include a focus on mens’ and boys’ health, improving gender relations, promoting gender equality and highlighting positive male role models.

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Happy Mother’s Day – Sunday 14th March